Third-Party Disaster Recovery Alternatives

Third-party alternatives to replication, mirroring, and synchronization approaches of support disaster recovery are fairly prevalent. Symantec and a handful of other companies lead the way with very viable, but often expensive, solutions. However, many are bundled with their disk subsystems (which makes them easy to use and manage out-of-the-box). Following are some very strong solutions:

Symantec—The Symantec replication solutions, including Veritas Storage Replicator and Veritas Volume Replicator, can create duplicate copies of data across any distance for data protection. These are certified with SQL Server. See www.symantec.com.

SteelEye Technologies—The SteelEye LifeKeeper family of data replication, ...

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